Layla bint Abi Hathma
ليلى بنت أبي حثمة
Of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; Ibn Ishaq names her among the women emigrants to Abyssinia.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Refugees, migrants and diaspora
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; Ibn Ishaq names her among the Abyssinian emigrant women. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names her among the emigrant women to Abyssinia of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b, tracing her to Abu Hathma ibn Ghanim. 1 The text does not state her husband at this point.
Tribe
She belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Adi ibn Ka'b 1
Source notes and markers of doubt
- The book gives "Layla bint Abi Hathma"; the text names neither her husband nor her fate on p. 11.
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Adi ibn Ka'b
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Traveled to
- Aksum
People and things also explored
Adi ibn Nadla· Al-Nu'man ibn Adi· Ma'mar ibn Abdullah ibn Nadla· Urwa ibn Abd al-Uzza· The second migration to Abyssinia· Abdullah ibn al-Harith the Poet· Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi· Abdullah ibn Sufyan al-Makhzumi
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/11
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islam.museum contributors. “Layla bint Abi Hathma”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/layla-bint-abi-hathma/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.